Bengaluru, Aug. 26 -- The Karnataka government's decision to invite Booker Prize-winning poet Banu Mushtaq to inaugurate the Mysuru Dasara festival on September 22 has triggered sharp criticism from BJP leaders, who questioned her selection on religious grounds. But in a notable divergence, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, the Mysuru royal descendant and BJP MP from Mysuru-Kodagu, welcomed the choice while urging sensitivity to tradition. "We have no problem or disagreement with the invitation of poet Banu Mushtaq to the inauguration of the Nadahabba Mysuru Dasara. However, my insistence is that religious sentiments should not be hurt," Wadiyar said. He added that Dasara must be understood as both a secular and religious event and s...